This booklet reprints an article from the American Physical Education Review, February 1908. It is a report of an address given before the Second Annual Convention of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States, in New York City, on December 28, 1907. It argues that athletics are important for the values that they instill in those who play sports.
LUTHER H. GULICK was director of the Department of Child Hygiene at the Russell Sage Foundation.
This booklet discusses the reasons for the slowing of students’ progress in schools. It includes a text reprinted from the tenth annual report of Dr. William H. Maxwell, superintendent of schools of New York City, as well as an investigation by Leonard P. Ayres, with the assistance of Luther Halsey Gulick, into this problem in fifteen schools in Manhattan.
LEONARD P. AYRES was director of the Division of Education at the Russell Sage Foundation.
LUTHER HALSEY GULICK was director of physical training of the New York public schools.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was superintendent of schools of New York City.
This booklet was reprinted from the Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Tuberculosis for the Russell Sage Foundation. It discusses detecting tuberculosis in the public schools and educating students about the disease.
LUTHER HALSEY GULICK was director of physical training of the New York public schools.
This booklet provides a list of works on the topic of play, as well as a list of stories for children.
GEORGE E. JOHNSON was director of the Pittsburgh Playground Association.
MAUD SUMMERS wrote books on reading pedagogy.
This booklet addresses the need to reform the celebration of the Fourth of July. It includes a letter from President William Taft to Luther Halsey Gulick, the president of the Playground Association of America; a report from the Conference of Municipal Representatives of the Third Annual Playground Congress titled “A Safer, Saner Fourth of July”; and an essay by William Orr, principal of Central High School in Springfield, Massachusetts, titled “Independence Day: A Civic Opportunity.”
This booklet contains two articles reprinted from The Playground. The first discusses the obstacles to developing playgrounds in social centers—namely, the narrow views of taxpayers, the clash of selfish interests in playgrounds’ location and distribution, and the hostility of immediate neighbors on account of the noise and disturbance of so many children at play. The second discusses the importance of playgrounds in cities generally.
GEORGE M. FORBES was president of the Board of Education in Rochester, New York.
HIRAM H. EDGERTON was mayor of Rochester, New York, from 1908 to 1921.
The text of this booklet was originally published by the Massachusetts Civil League and the Playground Association of America. It discusses an upcoming vote at the next municipal election on the question of providing adequate playgrounds. It provides the text of the proposed act creating such playgrounds, discusses the reasons for having playgrounds, and provides quotations from playground advocates, including President Theodore Roosevelt, Hull House founder Jane Addams, and writer Ralph Waldo Emerson.
JOSEPH LEE was a social worker and philanthropist.
This booklet provides a general review of the work of the Public Schools Athletic League and discusses the Athletic Badge Test, a test given to boys requiring them to run a certain distance, jump a certain distance, and pull themselves up to a bar a certain number of times.
This booklet, reprinted from Proceedings of the Second Annual Playground Congress, discusses what the New York City Board of Education has done to provide facilities for children’s play outside school hours, what additional facilities for recreation might be provided, and some suggestions for the administration of children’s recreation.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL was the superintendent of schools, New York City.
A form listing people and places—including churches, employers, medical agencies, and public officials—that social agencies might have visited with columns for noting the number of visits to each. An explanation following the list notes that agencies using the largest number of outside sources of information will be seen as having made the best investigation into the cases they are treating.